We Talk To The Bros Waiting In Line for McQueen

With a total visitor tally weighing in at 661,509, it's inevitable that a few non-fashionistas trekked up to 5th Ave for Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the Met this summer. Though we imagined last night's closing hours would separate the die-hards from the fan pack, as the museum stayed open until midnight for the first time in its 141-year history to celebrate the closing of it's 8th most popular show on record, we found a fair amount of bros waiting out the five hour line amongst girls in 6-inch O.C. booties. We sought out those who looked least McQueen-y to find out why they waited until the last minute.

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Exercising brutal honesty, Alex, a recent NYU grad, explained that he was at the MET so late because, "There'd be a lot of kids coming with their parents during the day." "So you hate children?" we asked. "I don't hate children, I just don't know if I like children with Alexander McQueen."

Nearby, Richard told us he was there to accompany his wife, "A happy wife makes a happy husband! All I know is that he's British and that he died last year." One out of two's not bad.

Not far behind Richard was Joso, also there with his wife (there was an ungodly amount of hand-holding in that line). Joso knew a bit more about the enfant terrible, "I know that he made most of the stuff that Lady Gaga wore, it just sucks that he ended it so early."

Inside, the dudes continued tried to see things from their wives' perspectives: "If I were a hot girl I would wear that." Or not, "That's like a Troy-type thing." There was an older couple, the male half of which was clearly disinterested. "You know when you look at your watch it drives me crazy," his wife exclaimed, halfway through rehashing weekends spent watching Elsa Klensch.

The gem of the evening goes out to a hair-gel loving couple who, upon glancing at the late designer's Highland Rape collection, exclaimed, "That might happen at some point tonight." Cheers to them.